Educational toy



July 4, 1950 E. DALY EDUCATIONAL TOY Filed Jan. 2, 1946 MARTIN E. DALY,

Patented July 4, 1950 TUNITED AT T OFFICE Application January 2, 1946, Serial No. 638,630

1 Claim. 1

The present invention relates to toys, and is more particularly concerned with one which can be used at home or in school for combined educational and amusement purposes.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a toy which can be readily manipulated by a child or instructor to demonstrate various subjects of -interest, such as housekeeping, buying, preparing a meal and setting a table.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel toy of few parts and inexpensive to manufacture.

With the foregoing and other objects and advantages in, view, the invention consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the movable display element.

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof. I

Figure 3 is a fragmentary front elevation of the movable apron or display band.

Figure 4 is a. partial front elevation of one embodiment of the invention, namely a toy refrigerator.

Like numerals are used in the description and drawings to designate the same parts of construction.

Two removable spools or reels I and 2 are employed to carry a movable band 3 of any suitable material, preferably fabric or rubber. Reels I and 2 are mounted on spindles, which are rotatably mounted in the depending bearing brackets 4 attached to or placed on, the shelf of a miniature refrigerator 5, as shown or the brackets may be attached to the under side of shelves of a toy table or oven trays of a stove. Both reels are rotated by means of removable knobs 6, or crank handles, secured to the front ends of the spindles. The knobs are designed to operate the band or apron 3 in either direction.

On the band or movable apron are embossed or raised replicas of various objects in color and on a miniature scale. Such objects may be food" stuffs, as illustrated, and they are colored to resemble the natural ones. In the drawings the raised objects 1 are exaggerated in order to better illustrate the novel character of the movable band.

The band or apron 3 passes across the upper side of shelf 8 or, in the case of a toy stove or table, the top thereof. The side edges of the 2 shelves 8 are spaced from the inner surface of the side walls of the icebox or cabinet to provide a space in which the reels may be positioned. The shelf 8 is adapted to be engaged between the reels for supporting the tray 3 with the reels depending from the ends of the shelf.

In the embodiment of the invention, as 11- lustrated, uncooked and raw foods of various kinds such as a, ham or roast, as indicated by the numeral 7 are shown on the length of the band or apron 3 and caused to pass in review by turning the knobs 6.

For a toy. stove a roll would contain various kinds of food in different stages of being cooked, while for a toy table various set-ups of plates, knives and forks would be shown on a different roll, with some cooked foods suitable for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Also, the above described reels and display band or apron may be adapted to a miniature toy store to display merchandise or foodstuffs.

A supply of rolls bearing various images may be furnished with each toy.

Such toys as are above referred to may be given to children for playthings and will interest them or they may be used in kindergartens for educational purposes.

It will be understood that the toy, in whatever form, may be made of any suitable material such as metal, wood, plastic or cardboard and the parts necessary for the moving display will be made of fabric or rubber preferably.

Instead of embossing or stamping the images on the rotary band they may be supplied separately as adhesive objects and aifixed to the roll as desired. In such case they will be of suitable thickness and mounted in superincumbent manner to allow the band to roll up On the reels. The band and images may be of difierent material and the images may be compressible.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a to cabinet having a plurality of shelves therein with the side edges of said shelves spaced inwardly from the side walls of said cabinet and a hinged door, the combination, which comprises a tray with downwardly extending ancuate ends and depending bearing brackets spaced from the ends, transversely disposed rollers positioned between the brackets, shafts rotatably mounting the rollers in the lower depending ends of the brackets, knobs 0n the ends of the shaftsv for rotating the rollers, and a band having images extending from the surfaces of parts thereof slidably mounted on the tray with the ends thereof extending over the arcuate ends of the tray and affixed to the rollers, said tray with the band and rollers thereon adapted to be freely positioned on a shelf of the cabinet with the rollers below said shelf between the side edges of the shelf and the side walls of said cabinet.

MARTIN E. DALY.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

4 UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Number 745,872 I,

Name Date Patteson Feb. 4, 1908 Behncke Aug. 30, 1921 Swartz -1 Nov. 2, 1926 Lewis June 28, 1932 Smith June 30, 1936 Rowe Dec. 8, 1942 FOREIGN PATENTS ,-Country Date France 1933 

